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UUIDs are horrible. While a computer doesn't really care about the way an identifier looks, humans sometimes do need to look at them and operate on them (compare them, transcribe them, dictate them, recognize them).

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UUIDs are a lot shorter than the gibberish you typed: 604a6a34-6d33-4148-8e75-6aee31b0d963

It is true that it's difficult to compare and transcribe.

When I opened this post, I saw it was much wider than any post I have seen on hackernews. I tried looking into the css, I thought it was somehow different, for whatever reason.

I could not find anything and then I encountered your comment. Apparently, your unbreakable long word makes the site very wide.

I didn't know comments can affect how wide the page borders are. Is this not bad UI? I am unsure who to ask.

@dang

There is a contact link in the footer too, you know.

But yeah, seems like bad UI. I would have thought overflow-wrap would be set on posts.

Sorry about that. I didn't think about the overflow effects. Alas I can't edit the post now.

It's a bug. If anyone can figure out how to fix it without breaking something else, it would be great to hear about that at hn@ycombinator.com. My CSS is too meagre.

I've added whitespace to the GP comment now.

But I think in 2021, I'd be fine with a phone "number" in UUID format, because I can always send it by computer to anyone who needs it. The added inconvenience is easily worth not getting several spam calls a day.

I wish we all had SIP and our own gateways, we could ditch the carriers, the central directories, automate the dropping of SPAM, encrypt our calls with PGP, serve our keys and end points in DNS and just take calls at our email address.

I see what you did there.

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